Podcasts about kluge chair

Aug. 18, 2016. This talk by Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South Juan Cole will provide a tour of the irenic messages of the Qur'an. The Muslim scripture, the Qur'an or Koran, has been analyzed a great deal for its ideas on a whole range of subjects, from late antique economic practices to notions of the just war. The literature on its ideas regarding peace, however, is remarkably small. Yet peace is central to this book on a whole range of dimensions, from community relations to inner, mystical composure, to visions of heaven and the world after the Judgment Day. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7500

May 26, 2016. John Sexton, immediate past president of New York University and current Kluge Chair in American Law in Governance, offers his perspective on the future of American higher education. The university has been one of American society's most durable institutions for more than a century -- and the modern research university its most sophisticated presentation. Yet globalization, technology and market forces are likely to reshape the form and function of the research university in the coming decades. What are the relevant forces and what are their likely effects? For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7494

Nov. 5, 2015. Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discussed how the Protestant Reformation transformed not only theology and the church but also law and the state. Drawing on new biblical and classical learning, Protestant theologians and jurists brought sweeping changes to constitutional order, criminal law, family law, and the laws of education and social welfare. This lecture, offered in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Reformation, explored the Reformation's enduring impact, for better or worse, on Western life, law and learning. Speaker Biography: John Witte Jr. is Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7131

Sep. 5, 2015. Manuel Castells, Morton Kondracke & Julia G. Young discuss their work on a panel celebrating the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Sociologist and scholar Manuel Castells was appointed to the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society in 2012 at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and used the Library's extensive collections to research for his book, now available in an updated second edition, "Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age." Castells is a professor of sociology and president of the Scientific Commission of Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor in 17 universities around the world and has lectured at more than 300 academic and professional institutions in 46 countries. He is the author of over 25 books, including the trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture," which has been translated into more than 20 languages. He has received many honors and awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship and the C. Wright Mills Award, and has been knighted for scientific merit by the governments of France, Finland, Chile, Portugal and Catalonia. Speaker Biography: Journalist Morton Kondracke was the scholar appointed to the Kemp Chair in Political Economy in 2011 at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He used the Library's extensive collections, particularly the Jack F. Kemp Collection, to research Jack Kemp's life and contributions to American political thought. His new book, "Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America," traces Kemp's life from childhood through his political career. Kondracke has been a national journalist for nearly 50 years and currently is an editor and columnist at Roll Call. He is also the author of the best-selling "Saving Milly: Love, Politics and Parkinson's Disease," which inspired a CBS movie. Speaker Biography: Assistant professor and scholar Julia G. Young was a 2014 Kluge Fellow at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and used the Library's extensive collections to research for her recent book, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles and Refugees of the Cristero War." Using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States, her book describes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict that had a deep impact on Mexican emigrant communities across the United States. Young is an assistant professor in the department of history at Catholic University of America and has research and teaching interests that include Mexican and Latin American history, global migrations, religion and diaspora. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6892

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, discusses how the first Portuguese voyage to India in 1497 coincided with the Portuguese attempt to forcibly convert its Jewish residents in the kingdom. Speaker Biography: Sanjay Subrahmanyam is an Indian historian and the holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA which he joined in 2004. In 2012, Subrahmanyam won the Infosys Prize for Humanities for his path-breaking contribution to history. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6008

Sociologist Manuel Castells examines the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements that have emerged in the Internet Age. He shares his observations on the recurring patterns in these movements: their origins, their use of new media, and their goal of transforming politics in the interest of the people. Castells presents what he sees to be the shape of the social movements of the Internet age, and discuss the implications of these movements for social and political change. Speaker Biography: An expert on the information age and its sociological implications, Manuel Castells is a University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. He is professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and a leading expert on the information age and its sociological implications. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5619.